Dozens of homes burned down in the Breezy Point section of Queens in New York during Hurricane Sandy. Damage from Sandy cost about $65billion.

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Doyle Rice
| USA Today

With $110 billion in damages, 2012 was the second-costliest year for weather and climate disasters since this type of record-keeping began in 1980, federal climate scientists announced Thursday.

According to the National Climatic Data Center, the U.S. in 2012 had 11 separate weather and climate events that each had losses exceeding $1 billion in damage. This follows another catastrophic year, 2011, when a record 14 separate billion-dollar disasters were documented.